wallerian degeneration/seizures

An adult patient had EEG occipital spike fixation-off sensitivity and spontaneous occipital seizures due to perinatal asphyxia with bioccipital hemorrhage. EEG abnormalities consisted of repetitive posterior spikes that occurred when the eyes were closed and other conditions of fixation-off.

A central nervous disorder occurred spontaneously in a herd of feeder pigs characterized by muscle fasciculations, convulsions, squealing, and acute death in numerous animals. Histopathology revealed a degenerative poliomyeloencephalopathy of brain stem and spinal cord consisting of neuronal

BACKGROUND Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) techniques demonstrated diffuse bilateral temporal and extra-temporal abnormalities of white matter in patients presenting mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (HS). The aim of this study was to assess these diffusion changes following

OBJECTIVE To analyze the anatomic consequences of selective amygdalohippocampectomy (AH) in patients with hippocampal sclerosis and to correlate the clinical outcome with the MR appearance. METHODS Seventeen patients were examined with clinical and neuropsychologic examination and cranial MR after

A case of immunosuppressive measles (rubeola) encephalitis in a 12-year-old boy in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia is described. The patient presented with focal seizures which led to epilepsia partialis continua and then progressive obtundation. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed focal

We describe a six-month-old girl with microcephaly, developmental delay, truncal hypotonia, left pyramidal signs, partial seizures and myoclonic spasms, born to a feverish mother. MRI showed bilateral vascular lesions in the territory of the middle cerebral arteries, prevalent in the right

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes reported after corpus callosotomy include hyperintensity in the corpus callosum, perifalcine hyperintensity caused by surgical retraction, and acute changes associated with surgical complications. The authors have observed MRI signal changes in the cerebral

Accumulating clinical and experimental studies continue to elucidate and further define the significance of intra- and extra-cranial factors which determine outcome of traumatic brain injury. These factors include severity of injury, age of the patient, presence or absence of premorbid brain

We report our clinical and neuroradiologic findings in 13 patients affected by hypomelanosis of Ito. Seven patients were boys and six were girls; their ages ranged from 11 months to 16 years. Neurologic signs were present in all but two cases, and they consisted of language disabilities, seizures,

Imaging changes in patients with focal epilepsy are not only seen in areas where seizures arise but often also in remote locations. The mechanism for such changes is unknown. We aimed to investigate whether patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) have microstructural changes involving the

OBJECTIVE Bilateral white matter diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) abnormalities have been reported in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and unilateral mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), but it is unknown whether these are functional or structural changes. We performed a longitudinal study in